After inquiries from TPM, the U.S. Marshals Service is probing why a cameraman accompanying Rep. Peter King (R-NY) was allowed to film inside a private residence in violation of federal policy during a raid yesterday to apprehend fugitives.
King posted video from his ridealong on his “official” YouTube channel this afternoon, but removed the full version when TPM began asking questions about it. An edited version was later posted. Ryan Reilly and Nick Martin have the story.
In today’s Day In 100 Seconds, Fox News puts the sugar in your gas tank.
If you haven’t been following things closely, you might not know that Senate Republicans have formed a virtual blockade around all of President Obama’s pending nominations.
After suggesting President Obama is an anti-white radical, an indignant Sarah Palin says the Obama camp “heavily edited” her remarks.
A couple of House committee chairman are facing primary challenges down in Alabama today. Very hard to get a read on those races, but both incumbents are running hard.
Jon Stewart to Mitt Romney: “You’re a guy who looks like you just stepped off of the Monopoly board. You really think you’re gonna appeal to Southerners by finding reference with them on the issues that matter most to them: their accent and choosing the right breakfast starch?” Watch.
Important chart on the difference in government spending between the recovery in Reagan’s first term and Obama’s halting recovery now.
Mitt Romney’s positions: increasingly impossible to nail down.
North Carolina county commission turns down state grant for family planning services. “If these young women are being responsible and didn’t have the sex to begin with, we wouldn’t have this problem to begin with,” commission chairman Tom Davis explained.
It’s starting to look like that shocking, horrific story of the soldier who went on a mass killing spree might lead in some unexpected and even more troubling directions. We’re now hearing that the soldier in question was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury from an incident in Iraq in 2010 but was later declared fit for duty. Read More